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27.0.50; Display-buffer function to use whole frame

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 34169 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34169: 27.0.50; Display-buffer function to use whole frame
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 15:33:29 +0200

Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com> writes:

> It would be nice if Emacs's display-buffer routine had some way to
> display the buffer in the current frame and delete the other windows. I
> found `magit--display-buffer-fullframe' which seems to do what I want.
> Can something like this be added to window.el?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> (defun magit--display-buffer-fullframe (buffer alist)
>   (when-let ((window (or (display-buffer-reuse-window buffer alist)
>                          (display-buffer-same-window buffer alist)
>                          (display-buffer-pop-up-window buffer alist)
>                          (display-buffer-use-some-window buffer alist))))
>     (delete-other-windows window)
>     window))

Makes sense to me, so I've added this to Emacs 29.

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